Talk:Cessna Citation family

Reorganization overview

The whole series of Citation articles, starting with this one, has become quite disjointed. Thus, I'm undertaking an effort to get things cleaned up a bit. I'll be documenting the progress here. There are five distinct families of Citations, and many variants within those. This article will soon have a "lineage overview" section after the lead paragraph, followed by development information about the original family. As there are a few other articles out there, they will then become the foundation for detailed information on each of the other 4 families and their offspring. Suggestions, copy edits and flaming darts are always welcome. Akradecki 21:09, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

The generally excellent articles and comments do not make it clear that the name "Citation 500" applied to the original model. In (I believe) 1978 the 550 model was introduced, which was called "Citation II". The 500 was now called "Citation I" and was built alongside the II, but it had a number of upgrades; the engines were upgraded to -1A and the aircraft was given an added foot or so extra wing span. The electrical system was upgraded, too with two identical inverters (in the original version, selection of the standby inverter caused the loss of the weather radar). Most buyers of the new Citation I opted for recognition lights to be fitted in the extended wingtips. Thrust reverse was not an extra many owners opted for, mainly due to the added weight. Both the original Citation and the Citation I are sharing the model designation "500" (or 501 for the single pilot version), but they are not identical. I can not find any mention of the origin of the name "Citation" for this aircraft; it has been named after a famous American race horse. When chided by my friends and colleagues flying Learjets - calling my aircraft "Slotation" or "Nearjet" - the only aircraft which needs a calender in the cockpit, in needs of reinforced trailing edges for bird strike protection, in need of aft-looking radar to detect fast moving squall lines... all the silly jokes and remarks - I counter with "Why is the Learjet so fast? Answer: It is too b...y uncomfortable to spend any length of time in !" But Cessna Citation has the last laugh, the 650 can cruise up to M.84 and the Citation X is, with Concord withdrawn from service, currently the fastest civil aircraft ! And the original design is so good that Sierra Industries is re-vamping old 500 airframes with new interior, exterior, full glass cockpit and Williams 44 engines. It should cruise at M.7 or thereabouts and does not disgrace itself in the climb, either ! I have been rated in Citations since 1979 and still enjoy flying them. Rudy

Reorganization, Phase I

The article has now been rewritten. Because "Cessna Citation" can refer to both the overall product line, The first major section of this article is a product line overview. While I realize that usually this kind of info comes much later in a typical WikiProject Aircraft article, I believe that the Citation needs to be an exception, because the product line is so convoluted. By putting it here, the reader who may not be that familiar with the product line can get a "roadmap" of sorts in order to understand what all is involved with the Citation brand.

Since "Cessna Citation" traditionally also can refer to the original straight-wing family that grew from the Citation I, I have also included details of this family in this article. It is my goal to have a separate article on each of the other five families. Akradecki 01:53, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and because this is a long and involved project, there are a couple of redlinks in the article at the moment, which will turn blue as the project gets completed. Please be patient with these for the moment....Akradecki 02:15, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Reorganization, Phase II

User:Akradecki (Alan) did an excellent job in reorganizing the Citation family articles, but I don't believe he fully completed what he set out to do, as he pursued and obtained an adminship just a few months after the above posts. Sadly, he is not active on WP at this time.

I did not appreciate the very hard work Alan had done on the Citations until I ran across a set of articles created after he did the initial reorganization. These articles, the Cessna Citation CJ1, Cessna Citation CJ2, Cessna Citation CJ3, and Cessna Citation CJ4, were an absolute mess. No attempt was even made to link them to this overview rticle, which is probaly why they went for a year basically untouched, and certainly unimproved. I have just finished merging them into the Cessna CitationJet article, and I hope the result is much better now. I'm not trying to be unfair in my criticism of the primary editor responsible for the creation of these articles, but by not linking them elsewhere, he deprived these articels of the assistance of other editors in the project. As I write this, other editors have already made edits to the new article, and it will be much better for it!

While doing the work of updating and merging the CJ family, I was able to review and improve some of the other Citation family aticles. Alan described six basic families of Citations, and I beleive he intended to have an article on each one. Right now, there are 3 "family" aricles, and two on the "upper and lower bookend" models, the Cessna Citation Mustang and the Cessna Citation Columbus. One new model, the Sovereign, is curently on the Cessna Citation Excel page. As I've noted on that talk page, I do support splitting it off to it's own page, but the content is not there right now for me to do it,and I don't have access to recent info, or to pics of the Sovereign.

There are three other families that do not have pages yet (or I haven't found them!):

• The Citation I series
• The Citation II series, including the Bravo
• The Citation V series, including the Ultra and Encore

There is probably enough info in this article to split the V series off right now, and I will be looking into that article next. The others may take some time, aand then this article will be primarily an overview page. At that point, I will split up the "Citation product line lineage overview" section, with its rather-complicated indentations, giving each familyl a major heading/sub-heading.

Any comments or assistence will be appreciated. Thanks. - BillCJ (talk) 23:14, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Sovereign

For goodness sake, I am typed in the C680 and you guys keep claiming that it is based on the Excel fuselage. And now you have a link to an old and inaccurate story from Airliners.net that supports this. The Sovereign uses the Citation X fuselage and nose. The wings, engines, and empennage are different. Originally Cessna was going to use the Excel fuselage and stretch it, but they did not. The airliners.net article is old and inaccurate. Call Cessna in Wichita and ask them, or ask any C680 driver like myself. The Excel fuselage has nothing to do with the Sovereign. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.16.173.59 (talk) 06:25, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Merger proposal

I propose that Cessna Citation Columbus be merged into Cessna Citation. Until such time that it becomes notable in its own right, if ever, I propose that these articles be merged. The columbus was only ever a twinkle in Cessnas eye before being put on hold indefinitely, and doesn't warrant a separate article. Merge and re-direct Petebutt (talk) 10:12, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

• Oppose - as per Wikipedia:Notability (aircraft) it should stay a separate article. We have lots of articles on cancelled projects and they are quite historically useful when referenced properly like this article is. - Ahunt (talk) 11:45, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
• Oppose - per Ahunt. Also, the article contains too much referenced material to be adequately summarized in a short entry on the main Citation page. - BilCat (talk) 12:57, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Comment - this has been open a month now, I think we can close this as "no consensus to merge". - Ahunt (talk) 13:05, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

New Aircraft

The Longitude article is sketchy on actually verified details (beyond blogger speculation), and the Latitude article simply doesn't exist. Think there's some improvement there in order. Anomaly (talk) 21:56, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Are there any sources out there besides blog speculation yet? If not, there's not much left we can do until something concrete from reliable sources is available. - BilCat (talk) 01:13, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Both have pages up on the Cessna website now, with a good bit of information. Plenty of brochures out there too. Plus, there's a LOT of stuff like http://www.bartintl.com/headlines/feb-2012/cessna-citation-latitude-has-new-longer-range68.103.185.180 (talk) 03:31, 6 April 2013 (UTC)